This book takes an innovative approach to psychoanalysis. Instead of following well known and predictable Oedipal themes, it offers to investigate the practice used by psychoanalysts in therapy.

The search for the meaning of life is one of man's deep passions. Humans are not content to merely exist. The want to understand their existence, to weave the different events, conditions and affinities of their lives into one complete, comprehensible

This book presents updated information on deception and the methods developed to uncover lies. The author describes a wide range of lies, the verbal and nonverbal cues to deception and the perceived cues, which often mislead lie-catchers. Other is

This book traces the thought of the German philosopher Karl Jaspers, from his early writings as a young psychiatrist to his mature thinking as an existentialist.

The book provides a model for the processing of information in the mind. It includes chapters on the brain, sensory recording, attention, memory, acts of thought and metacognitive decision making. Ways of supervising and improving the act of proce

A pioneering research work on suicide among children, particularly in the 3-12 age group, examines the different forms and stages of self-destructive tendencies and clarifies why suicide is ''preferred'' to other expressions of maladjustment, taking i

An examination of psychological values in various areas of formal thinking.